What do you suggest for a viable “backup plan”? What does that even look like for an online game? They already have offline mode.
As a long time IT architect, engineer, admin, and started of as desktop-tech, they didn’t correctly test the release.
Either the projected concurrent load or use cases; most likely a combo of both.
As a result, service is “offline” due to improper planning.
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As someone who works in the gaming industry, this is really par for the course, especially if you are launching on a large scale. Nothing can truly prepare a developer for first launch of a new game. So relax children, watch a movie or play another game in the meantime while they get it sorted.
IDK if you’re being sarcastic but they had plenty of issues where you couldn’t leave areas and teleporting back to places.
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That’s because they learned their lesson with WoW launch and invested in multi Million dollar servers.
It is what it is. Was expected to have some launch issues. Unfortunately these things are kind of the norm these days no matter how big or small the development company is.
Appreciate the constant updates and hope you resolve the issues!
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lmao UHAI stop being a fanboy they have to own up to their underdelivered promises.
“we have unltimited cloud processing scaling” lmfao
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This is awful, I am incredibly dissapointed.
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Steam players for this game peaked back in March of 2023 of 40k players and dropped to an average 1-5k players monthly today alone capped over 150k players trying to play all at once so they probs didn’t expect quadruple amount of players of their last peak so maybe cutting them some slack will do them good instead of crying?!?!
Anyone reading could tell I was speaking generically. The vast majority of players jumping in are either new/lapsed players, and they have plenty of options. Sorry that it isn’t applicable to your specific situation of being a longtime enjoyer of the game.
Have you ever heard about NDA? No? Like copy 1:1 with power of mind. I would like to have such superpower.
I wish I could refund too…
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I’ve been in IT for 20 years in various roles. You can test all you want with “virtual” loads, but nothing really can prepare you for a real world test (which is oftentimes why some games do server stress test weekends).
Previous server peak was something like 20k, and last I checked we now have 6 times that trying to get in.
At least, unlike most modern games, you can play offline until they get things resolved. Good time to test the new characters so you know which one you want to create when the servers come back up!
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We will wait for something big like this, keep up the good work and good luck!
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Are they running one server under their desks…
I got in but because I was reading stuff on a different tab, the game kicked me back to the login page because of inactivity. Scheiss!
Maybe just keep trying.
Surely you can tell us if we’ll be playing this game today or not, help us manage our expectations please. I took off work for this launch. Just let me know if I’m taking the full L or not.
The shared delusion;
‘we all knew the servers will be like this on launch, it happens all the time’
Don’t be a sheep…
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Or just play offline! Game functions perfectly fine in offline mode!
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Let peope refund